Marty Robbins - El Paso City lyrics

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From thirty thousand feet above<br />

The desert floor, I see it there below<br />

A city with a legend -<br />

The west Texas city of El Paso<br />

Where long ago I heard a song<br />

About a Texas cowboy and a girl<br />

And a little place called Rosa's<br />

Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl.<br />

I don't recall who sang the song<br />

But I recall the story that I heard<br />

And as I look down on the city,<br />

I remember each and ev'ry word<br />

The singer sang about a jealous cowboy<br />

And the way he used a gun<br />

To kill another cowboy<br />

Then he had to leave El Paso on the run.<br />

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande<br />

The cowboy lived and rode away<br />

But love was strong he couldn't stay<br />

He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand<br />

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande<br />

I try not to let you cross my mind<br />

But still I find there's just a mystery<br />

In the song that I don't understand.<br />

My mind is down there somewhere<br />

As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico<br />

I can't explain why I should know<br />

The very trail he rode back to El Paso<br />

Can it be that man can disappear<br />

From life and live another time<br />

And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think<br />

That you yourself lived in that other time.<br />

Somewhere in my deepest thoughts<br />

Familar scenes and memories unfold<br />

These wild and unexplained emotions<br />

That I've had so long but I have never told<br />

Like every time I fly up thru the heavens<br />

And I see you there below<br />

I get the feeling sometime<br />

In another world I lived in El Paso.<br />

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande<br />

Could it be that I could be<br />

The cowboy in this mystery<br />

That died there in that desert sand so long ago<br />

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande<br />

A voice tells me to go and see<br />

Another voice keeps tellin' me<br />

Maybe death awaits me in El Paso